Word: riskier
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Presidents of the U.S. don't get scared. They get security. But if the murder of an American diplomat in Karachi last week underlined the fact that George W. Bush was on one of his riskier foreign trips, the President was probably unaware he was skirting not two conflict zones - Afghanistan and Pakistan - but three. In India, Bush toured the southern city of Hyderabad to praise an example of everything that's right about the nation. Like its neighbor Bangalore, this ancient Muslim fort town is a hub for science and technology. But Hyderabad is also an example of what...
...years would lower your monthly payments, but you may not save so much as you would expect. Let's say you had a $200,000, 30-year mortgage at 6% interest. Your monthly payment would be $1,199. Since lenders consider a 40-year mortgage a bit riskier, they usually charge an additional 0.25% in interest. So that $200,000 loan would probably carry a rate of 6.25%, making for a monthly payment of $1,135. Total savings: only $64 a month. And because of that 40-year loan's higher interest rate, you would pay about $3,486 more...
HEDGE FUNDS Like mutual funds, hedge funds are pooled investments, primarily in publicly traded securities. But they're generally more aggressive, employing riskier strategies such as trading options and selling short. Once the province of multimillionaires, some new hedge-fund pools, like Rydex's SPhinX, are available for initial investments...
...extorting bribes from foreigners—are uniquely dangerous. But their study can yield uniquely valuable insights. Bakshi’s research will add to the scholarly community at Harvard in a way that would not have been possible without his first hand interviews and primary source materials. Though riskier than a summer at the Sorbonne, these sorts of opportunities abroad should continue to be available to as broad a range of students as possible...
...that he issued a “non-approvable” letter concerning the drug because only 29 of 585 participants in a study of the drug had been ages 14 to 16, with no participants under the age of 14. He claimed that younger teenagers might engage in riskier sex if they knew that emergency contraception was available, even though the study found that adolescents could use the drug appropriately. The GAO called this rationale “novel,” as the FDA consistently uses the behavior of older adolescents to predict the behavior of younger adolescents...